It’s Sunday afternoon, or: your last chance to read all that stuff you meant to read last week before Monday brings a new deluge of things you will want to read. Below, some of our recommendations:
“One Direction: The Tumblr Interview,†by Jessica Bennett (Storyboard/Tumblr): The British boy band answers the tough questions, including, “What’s it like having swarms of girls chasing you around the globe?â€
“Is It Creepy to See Someone Reading Fifty Shades of Grey on the Subway?†by Adam Sternbergh (The New York Times Magazine): At this point, it’s a question every single commuter has asked themselves.Â
“Dinner With Daniel: Michael Keaton,†by Daniel Kellison (Grantland): The actor on Beetlejuice, technology, almost starring in Lost, almost turning down Jackie Brown, and much, much more.
“What Ever Happened to Hysterical Realism?†by Lev Grossman (Time): An argument in favor of contemporary fiction’s shift away from the “big, hyper-inter-connected†novels of the nineties (think Infinite Jest) toward today’s more controlled, plot-oriented “unrealism.â€
“The Uncannily Accurate Depiction of the Meth Trade in Breaking Bad,†by Patrick Radden Keefe (Culture Desk/New Yorker): A reporter compares Walter’s budding meth empire — complete with slick lawyer-criminal Saul Goddman —to his recent story on Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel, and finds that the show pretty much gets it right.
“I Was an A-List Writer of B-List Productions,†by Stephen Harrigan (Slate): A TV movie-of-the-week screenwriter recalls an epiphany brought on by Lawrence of Arabia, and a career consisting primarily of “colon movies,†Shakespeare rip-offs, and being churned through the Hollywood grinder.
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